​Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject. The most common figures of speech are simile, metaphor, and alliteration.
Examples of Figurative Language!!!
Simile Metaphor hyperbole aliteration Personifacation Idiom
"My father said that my Gram couldn't read maps worth a hill of beans, and that he was grateful that I had aggreed to go along and help them find their way. I was only thirteen, and although I did have a way with maps, it was not really because of that skill I was going, nor was it to see the "whole ding-dong country" that Gram and Gramps were going. The Real reasons were buried beneath piles and piles of unsaid things." pg 4
"My father says I lean on broken reeds and will get a face full of swamp mud one day." pg 7
""Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears," Gram said "If you have three or four - or more - chickabiddies, your're dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don't have time to think about anything else. And if you've only got one or two, it's almost harder. you have room left over - empty spaces that you think you've got to fill up."" pg 53
"Gramps Barreled Through Wyoming lika a house afire. We snaked through winding roads where the trees leaned close, rustling rush, rush, rush, rush,rush.The road curved alongside rivers that rolled and gabbled hurry, hurry,hurry." 205
What is Figurative Language?
​Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject. The most common figures of speech are simile, metaphor, and alliteration.Examples of Figurative Language!!!
SimileMetaphor
hyperbole
aliteration
Personifacation
Idiom
"My father said that my Gram couldn't read maps worth a hill of beans, and that he was grateful that I had aggreed to go along and help them find their way. I was only thirteen, and although I did have a way with maps, it was not really because of that skill I was going, nor was it to see the "whole ding-dong country" that Gram and Gramps were going. The Real reasons were buried beneath piles and piles of unsaid things." pg 4
"My father says I lean on broken reeds and will get a face full of swamp mud one day." pg 7
""Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears," Gram said "If you have three or four - or more - chickabiddies, your're dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don't have time to think about anything else. And if you've only got one or two, it's almost harder. you have room left over - empty spaces that you think you've got to fill up."" pg 53
"Gramps Barreled Through Wyoming lika a house afire. We snaked through winding roads where the trees leaned close, rustling rush, rush, rush, rush,rush. The road curved alongside rivers that rolled and gabbled
hurry, hurry,hurry." 205